Wondering how to use Burlap in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as gunny or sacking.
Burlap in a sentence
Burlap meaning
A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
Using Burlap
- The main meaning on this page is: A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
- Useful related words include: gunny, sacking, bagging.
- In the example corpus, burlap often appears in combinations such as: in burlap, burlap and, burlap bags.
Context around Burlap
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Burlap
- In this selection, "burlap" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, camouflage, neutral, small, bags, used and sack stand out and add context to how "burlap" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a huge burlap tarpaulin painted and a small burlap shoulder sack. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "burlap" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with burlap
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The ranger found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring. (14 words)
Additional common curing methods include wet burlap and/or plastic sheeting covering the fresh concrete. (15 words)
Instead, it was a type of camouflage burlap used by hunters to disguise themselves among foliage. (16 words)
Hoʻopai said at 7 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, they are going to pull all the dirt back, take the plastics off, “and then one by one pull all that burlap bags off and then form a line and send all the turkeys back in,” he said. (47 words)
Falls still picks flowers like he would apples, rolls with his van when he’s in town, wraps up his bouquets with burlap and twine, and takes great pleasure in the profusion of protea that recently blossomed in his Venice backyard. (41 words)
Since it’s illegal to take your dog on a subway in New York if it’s not shoved into a “carrier,” this man shoved his large dog into a tiny burlap sack, if that’s what you can call it. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Chloé Duplessis stands next to a burlap dress that she is making for her upcoming show Sista Soldier in her studio at East Street School in Trinidad on September 11, 2023.
Instead, it was a type of camouflage burlap used by hunters to disguise themselves among foliage.
Male hair was recovered from the burlap used to wrap Waterman's body, and that DNA was found to be a match to leftover pizza crust Heuermann threw into a Manhattan garbage can in January 2023, according to court documents.
In this autumnal vignette, Troudt combined light, textures, and rich fall colors against the neutral burlap backdrop.
A burly sergeant came into the home, handed Ned an more powder horn, a small burlap shoulder sack with some dried meat and two loaves of rye bread, and a pat on the back again.
Insert burlap fabric into the opening and fold over outside of pumpkin; hold in place with tacks.
It began with the discovery, 10 years ago, of four bodies wrapped in burlap and discarded on a desolate stretch of Ocean Parkway near Gilgo Beach.
Months ago, a gardener had forgotten to wrap the fig trees in burlap, which protects them over the winter.
The ranger found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring.
During one 110 mile trek, he wore burlap bags on this feet to prevent frost bite.
Falls still picks flowers like he would apples, rolls with his van when he’s in town, wraps up his bouquets with burlap and twine, and takes great pleasure in the profusion of protea that recently blossomed in his Venice backyard.
Hoʻopai said at 7 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, they are going to pull all the dirt back, take the plastics off, “and then one by one pull all that burlap bags off and then form a line and send all the turkeys back in,” he said.
Since it’s illegal to take your dog on a subway in New York if it’s not shoved into a “carrier,” this man shoved his large dog into a tiny burlap sack, if that’s what you can call it.
A number of Ms. Trethewey’s poems take up photographs as their subject, and in many cases the photos she refers to in “Native Guard” are projected onto the burlap.
Additional common curing methods include wet burlap and/or plastic sheeting covering the fresh concrete.
Fortunately, I declined his proffered services and put it on a wooden box, padded with burlap to represent clothing.
Hop houses are two-story buildings, of which the upper story has a slatted floor covered with burlap.
In the Philippines, copra is collected as dried "cups" (the meat from one-half of a coconut), which are shipped in large burlap bags.
In waste molding a simple and thin plaster mold, reinforced by sisal or burlap, is cast over the original clay mixture.
The factory was hidden beneath a huge burlap tarpaulin painted to depict a peaceful semi-rural neighborhood, replete with rubber automobiles.
Common combinations with burlap
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: